Monday, June 30, 2008

Keyword browsing * is the facility that let users visit their fancy web sites without typing those ugly urls but a simple keyword. It is completely big time saver for all web users. Just typing a keyword e.g. facebook in address bar and pressing enter will bring you Facebook in a few seconds. This is the case if you are using most user friendly browsers like Firefox and Flock but other browsers unfortunately lack this functionality. I have created some plug 'n play solutions that will work around the problem and add keyword browsing support to today's most used browsers easily.

Surprisingly, adding keyword browsing support to Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 versions is pretty easy. I have created two search engines for the task. According to your browser version click on the appropriate button and add the needed search engine to your browser to start using keyword browsing immediately.

After you click on appropriate button, a small confirmation window will appear. Activate the option saying "Make this my default search provider" as depicted below to use keyword browsing facility in no time.

There you go. You are ready to give a try. Just type myspace in your location bar and press enter. You will land on Myspace in a moment. Try another one. Type yahoo and press enter. In a few seconds you will get Yahoo main page on your screen.

Other example keywords you may give a try.

youtube keyword will bring you leading video sharing web site - Youtube

live keyword will bring you the Microsoft's search engine - Live Search

facebook keyword will land you on the popular social network site - Facebook

For any site that you want to reach via keyword browsing, just find a good keyword that will describe the visit site best, type in your browser's location bar and then press enter. That is all you need to know.

If you have any problem, question to ask or want to thank, don't hesitate to post as comment.

Adding just a new search engine will be enough to implementing keyword browsing on Opera. Because adding search engines automatically (like in Internet Explorer) to Opera is not possible, we will create it from scratch. But it will not take too long. In a minute everything will be fine and ready to go.

From menu bar follow Tools > Preferences path. A new panel will appear and click on Search tab, then.

Press on Add button at the right side of the panel. A new search engine panel will appear. Fill out the form as depicted below.

Note: Below isn't an image but a form area so you can get the contents of the form area (yellow boxes) by right clicking and then copying.

After you filled out all sections, click on OK to proceed. Now close all open panels and open a new browser tab on Opera. On other browsers typing keyword and pressing enter is enough to implement I'm Feeling Lucky searches in location bar. But on Opera you should not forget to use the keyword that you defined in keyword section above.

Now lets give a try. Type go ebay into your location bar and press enter. You will land on Ebay in a moment. Try another one. Type go gmail and press enter. In a few seconds you will see Gmail main page on your screen.

Other example keywords you may give a try.

go smashing magazine will bring you a popular weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers - Smashing Magazinego lifehacker will bring you the famous productivity blog - Lifehackergo psdtuts will land you on a great blog that brings together photoshop talents and their great psd tutorials for photoshop users - PSDTuts

If you have any problem, question to ask or want to thank, don't hesitate to post as comment, please.

Maxthon doesn't provide a default keyword browsing support but you can bring the functionality onto your own Maxthon easily.

From Maxthon menu bar, follow Tools > Maxthon Setup Center path. Click on Search link on the left panel. A new frame will appear. At the end of the page below Search Engines heading, click on the Add Item link. A new form area will appear. Fill out the form as shown below.

*Note: I have created a simple form area below, that is completely identical to Maxthon Add Search form. So you can right click on the text areas, copy and paste values to your Maxthon without losing time for typing. Choosing all text will be handled automatically when clicked on text.

After filled out everything, click on Save. Open a new tab and type your keyword digg in location bar and press enter. Your location bar search will lead you to the site that your keyword best describe, in this case to DIGG .

Other example keywords you may give a try.

wikipedia keyword will bring you the popular open source encyclopedia - Wikipediaflickr will bring you the best online photo management and sharing application - Flickrblogger keyword will land you on the Google's famous blogging web service - Blogger

If you have any problem, question to ask or want to thank, don't hesitate to post as comment.